So I'm super duper stoked to wake up this morning, check my online banking and BAM! a triple payday plus! I got paid, Ryan got paid and we got our economic stimulous check- or whatever it's called! Too bad this doesn't happen every week! :-)
Tomorrow we're going to go order our block to make a retaining wall across our backyard, which will take up pretty much all of our IRS check ::sigh:: but then we can have our back yard leveled out, then Ryan can do our sprinklers, then within a month or so I should have GRASS!!! Wahoo!!
We have a 10x10 dog run that the puppies live in for the most part, but the rest of our backyard is just dirt, dusty dry dirt. And between the dogs coming inside the house and us going in and out of the backyard taking care of the dogs, my house is now dry dusty dirt and I'm pretty over it! I want my grass! :-)
I would post pictures of the mess our backyard is currently, but it's pretty ghetto- so I'll wait until we have "after" pictures too! We had to rip apart the siding on our hot tub to fix a leak and put new siding on that we still haven't painted, We have piles of landscape materials all over, we have many many of those blue water storage containers in our side yard, our flagstone patio to the hot tub is only 1/3 of the way done. The list goes on and on!
I feel blessed on a regular basis to have a husband who is so amazingly handy at so many different things. In this case his landscaping skills are going to pay off for us HUGE! He's done our front yard landscaping (including the drip/water systems) and his parent's front yard in Surprise- and now he gets to do our backyard! The money that we're saving on having the know how and ability to do it ourselves is awesome! I guess the year and a half of landscaping for a living has paid off (even though it didn't really at the time)!!
Speaking of, Ryan is really wanting to get a side business of landscaping going to bring in some extra dough. If anyone in the Prescott Tri-Cities needs ANY kind of work done...give us a buzz! Or please if you hear of anyone needing work done- give them our info! I promise that he knows his stuff!
9 years ago
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We got ours today too! woot!!! woot!!! And, we're using it to landscape our backyard too! Shawn knows how to do that stuff too. Though, most times, I'd really rather prefer have someone else come in and get it done rather than waiting for him to do it. Plus, he has so little free time, I'd rather he spent it with us. But we had to have our backyard finished within 120 days of closing --- which we've passed, so we have to get cracking on it. *sigh* Homeownership! Lots of "fine print" in it!
the biggest thing that I got out of that was: you have a HOTTUB???? ;)
yes, VERY cool story! When Ryan was landscaping for a living he had a customer that had one that couldn't use it anymore due to health issues. So he told Ryan that if he did all the work of transplanting it and then refinished his patio so that it didn't look like something was missing, then it was ours. The whole operation cost about $500 to pour a contrete slab, run the electrical, pay for some help in moving it, etc etc. VERY sweet deal! It's older and we've already had to tear the siding off to replace a leak, replace something around $100, and it needs a new cover because it's been exposed to direct sun for to many years, so it's not very pretty...but it's ours!!
can't wait to see the new yard, and more importantly, paint the front room this weekend!! So glad to see you and get to hang out again, it felt like 'old times'.
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